Ep 35 - Necropolis Immortal with Etvolare

...the lid of the stone coffin slowly shifted open, filling the chamber with a rancid stench of decay. Two blackened arms reached out from the interior...In the thirty fifth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast, we are looking at Necropolis Immortal (仙墓 / Xiān Mù), written by Immortal Amidst Snow in July. Our guest is the novel's irrepressible translator, Etvolare.Necropolis Immortal blends two particularly Chinese genres: xianxia, and tomb raiding. It's not quite the tomb raiding one associates with Indiana Jones and Lara Croft, as Etvo explains in our interview.-// NEWS ITEMS //Nick Stember's essay on Sinophilia: Sinophiles between Flatland, Fetish, and FeuilletonGe Fei's Peach Blossom Paradise available for pre-orderTang Fei to be guest of next London Chinese Sci-fi Group meeting-// WORD OF THE DAY //(墓 / Mù / Tomb)-// MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE //The 'tomb raiding fiction' genre in ChinaChinese webnovels as a literary modeTaiji philosophy-// Handy TrChFic Links //Episode Transcripts // Help Support TrChFicINSTAGRAM // TWITTER // DISCORD